Andean Futurisms, Ancestral Futures
“A people is missing” (Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff) is a guest curator at the III Coloquio de An-arqueologia de los Medios in Bogotá. On September 17, 2026, they will present the program “Andean Futurisms, Ancestral Futurities: Decolonizing Time.”
The curatorial proposal begins with the following question: How can we decolonize time? Andean Futurisms, Ancestral Futurities respond to various forms of temporal extractivism. Or, how modernity has imposed a series of “debts of time” and relegated non-Western territories and knowledge to the “waiting room of history.” Andean Futurisms and Ancestral Futurities envision futures beyond extractivist and developmentist logics.
The day will begin with Peruvian artist Alan Poma’s lecture Revissando el Manifiesto Futurista Andino, in which he will examine the significance and evolution of the manifesto six years after its publication, exploring concepts such as Gamaliel Churata’s camac, camaquen, and ahayu. Bolivian artist K’ita Wichhu will present Andean Cyberpunk? Reimaginando la integración del territorio, cultura y tecnología en medio de una globalización acelerada, a lecture-performance focused on the intersections between cultures, and the day will conclude with poet, artist, and historian Fher Masi and his lecture: “El Alto: Tiwanaku del siglo XXI,” a speculative reflection on the future of the Andes based on Aymara memory and other possible futures.
The event will take place in a hybrid format: in person and online.
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
From 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Bogotá time
Location: Bogotá Planetarium
Free admission, subject to availability
Organized by Idartes and Linea de arte, ciencia y tecnología
Special thanks to Carol Sabbadini, Juan Orozco, Sebastian Gomez, Julian Mauricio Cano Bautista, and the entire team.
Idartes website “Ontologies of the Future” https://www.idartes.gov.co/es/noticias/ontologias-futuras-el-iii-coloquio-de-arqueologia-de-los-medios-se-realizara-del-15-al-19
The full program:
September 17, 2026
– 4:00 p.m. (Bogotá time) Introduction
– 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Bogotá time): Alan Poma (Peru, artist and author of the Andean Futurist Manifesto) Lecture – A Look Back at the Andean Futurist Manifesto
In 2019, I wrote the Andean Futurist Manifesto with the aim of articulating a way to imagine the future from an Andean perspective. Many of the questions that shaped this manifesto were already imbued with a decolonial experience, even though, at the time, I did not yet have the academic vocabulary to name it. Rather, they stemmed from my experience of moving back and forth between different cultural, technological, and geographic worlds, particularly between Peru and California.
Six years later, the manifesto has evolved through encounters, collaborations, and artistic practices with others. Rereading it today, I conceive of Andean Futurism as a fundamentally relational practice: not as a fixed set of ideas belonging to a single artist, but as something that emerges from the relationships between people, territories, histories, technologies, and forms of knowledge.
This lecture aims to revisit the Andean Futurist Manifesto, not to explain what it proposed in 2019, but to reflect on what it has become and what it enables us to consider today. A central concept will be that of displacement: the movement of forms, images, ideas, and technologies across different temporalities and systems of knowledge, where they can acquire new meanings and possibilities.
In this sense, Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Map of the World” serves as a historical reference point for reflecting on how a form of world representation can be displaced and reorganized based on a different cosmology.
Building on this displacement, the conference will explore concepts such as Gamaliel Churata’s “camac,” “camaquen,” and “ahayu,” in order to reconsider the future not simply as what comes after the present, but as a transformation of the Pacha: a movement of space-time toward another configuration.
Alan Poma is a Peruvian sound and multimedia artist whose practice explores the relationships between technology, sound, Andean cosmologies, and nonlinear ways of understanding time and culture. His work takes the form of audiovisual installations, performances, composition, and experimentation with contemporary technologies, weaving dialogues between historical avant-garde movements and Andean knowledge.
In 2019, he published the Andean Futurist Manifesto with SOMA Press in Lima, thereby coining a term for a practice that seeks to imagine futures from Andean and decolonial perspectives. In 2023, he led the first seminar on Andean Futurism in the Art Department at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work has been exhibited in Lima, Huancayo, Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles.
– 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. (Bogotá time) K’ita Wichhu – Hybrid Lecture – “Andean Cyberpunk”? Reimagining the Integration of Territory, Culture, and Technology in a Context of Accelerated Globalization
Presentation of (…) “Cyborg Dreams of Other Beings in the Andes,” a photographic essay accompanied by audiovisual presentations illustrating its conceptual and production process, set in the city of El Alto; followed by an introduction to Andean futurism, a network of practices that advocate for cultural transformation by challenging the contradictions shaped by colonization; finally, a reflection on the relationship that the inhabitants of the Andes have forged with machines, beginning in western Bolivia.
Noemi Gonzales Cabrera – K’ita Wichhu was born in territory under Bolivian jurisdiction. Her artistic work explores Andean transculturality and changes in the landscape through photography, poetry, and other forms of expression. She studied social communication and history. She was a finalist at the “Enfoque Visual” festival in Colombia. She was a resident at Focco in 2024 in Chile, was invited to the “Apthapi” photography festival in Peru in 2025, and was a finalist in the “Nuestra Mirada” category of POY LATAM in 2025. She participated in “Ajayu Watan: Andean Futurism” in 2026. Her latest publication is the poetry collection “Archipelia,” published by Posthumanos Editores.
– 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Bogotá time) Fher Masi (El Alto, Bolivia), poet, artist
Lecture: El Alto: The Tiwanaku of the 21st Century
La Paz died in the 20th century, and El Alto was born from that death… So declared Neodimio Karikari, when El Alto had grown so large that it engulfed Tiwanaku, and Tiwanaku devoured El Alto from within. Monoliths rose like stone achumas in the puna, and the Aymara epicenter became the taypi of the acolytes of Wiraccocha the Decapitator. Little by little, preparations are underway for the eradication of idolatry against the chained Santiago Mataindios, the tortured archangels Raphael and Saint Michael, as well as the virgins of Copacabana and Socavón, who now don the garb of mourners. The atoms of the 20th century speak out. Everything returns from yesterday, even in the future. All the inhabitants of El Alto, in fervent adoration, raise a “Uka jacha uru jutaskiw” toward the heavens. Jallalla Tiwanaku of the 21st century!
Fher Masi (1997) is a Chichero poet, historian, and musician from the city of El Alto, Bolivia. His work explores the aesthetics and audiovisual narratives of the contemporary Andes, in dialogue with urban cultural production, through poetic-sound performances and the digital exploration of historical archives. He is a co-founder of the El Alto Community Archives (ACEA), a member of El Alto Aesthetics, and the author of works such as *Literatura de Minibús* (2023), *Política de Dukes* (2024), and *Porno de Cholitas* (2026). He is currently working on his next book, *Por donde miro, Tiwanaku también me mira*, dedicated to Andean futurism.
September 18, 2026
4:30 p.m. Bogotá time
Planetary Dome, Bogotá
Closing Discussion
“Andean Futurisms, Ancestral Futurities to Decolonize Time” with Kantuta Quirós & Aliocha Imhoff and Carol Sabaddini
Image captions:
Alan Poma. Events at Dawn, 2024 —Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima (MAC Lima). Photo: Click_Clxck.
Noemi Gonzales Cabrera – K’ita Wichhu Exit Lunar—Photographic installation from “Post-humans and Cyborg Dreams of + Beings in the Andes” at the “El Faro” Gallery, El Alto, Bolivia, 2025
Fher Masi in the performance Portal Mullu: El Alto – Huancayo (2026).
*Pachakuti*, a film by Kantuta Quirós & Aliocha Imhoff (2024), Episode 1, Season 2 of the chronopolitical series *Les Impatient.e.s*, featuring Fher Masi
